1. Avitakka Sutta.-Ananda, seeing Sáriputta, remarks on his calm demeanour and his translucent colour and asks him how they came about. Sáriputta explains that he had spent the day in the second jhána, in single-pointedness of mind, apart from thought applied and sustained (avitakka avicára). S.iii.236.
2. Avitakka Sutta.-Moggallána tells the monks how he had obtained the second jhána with the assistance of the Buddha. S.iv.263.